Comic Work Update 02

Hi Y'all,

Little spoiler free update that I can show of the project I'm currently working on.
The inking style is locked and everyone's happy with the look, just some alterations to his head and general facial features/age/hair and we have one main character ready to go....
So much fun plotting and planning!

More updates coming to a monitor near you soon.

Catch ya soon!

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Comic Work Update

Hi to all peoples of the Internets,

Been busy of late with day job shenanigans, but have also been in talks about doing the art for a book with someone I met through said day job!
I'll be putting my own personal project on hold (well, working on it when I can) whilst working on this story, it's a great tale and I'm looking forward to getting my teeth into it.
I won't be able to post anything here which could be a potential spoiler to the story itself, but I will post character sketches and other related planning bits when I can.

Many thanks to James and Sharan for the opportunity!

Here's some character sketches I did for them for one of the main characters, this served as a basis to begin getting the style they were looking for.

More to come soon, and I'm very much looking forward to working on it....


AWESOME SAUCE!

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Lost - Character Studies

Hi random web surfers and returning visitors alike,

I've continued with the character studies, but wanting to mix it up a bit decided to move onto another of my favourite shows, Lost.
This page will again be updated as and when i add new drawings of the cast.
I decided to pick a character to start with that would transition nicely from the previous series of The Wire to the new set from Lost, and so below is Sgt. Daniels (The Wire) / Michael Abaddon (Lost). (And as an added bonus, Broyles from Fringe).

I won't add this into The Wire series page as it would be cheating, but his face's got a lot of character so I may draw him again sometime but in his Police Uniform.

I will be continuing with more from The Wire in future, and indeed other shows and films I love too, as doing these is really good to practice and learn from, and I will also be expanding in some cases to full body shots/action sequences (most likely for the film side of things).

Until next time...

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1. Abaddon

The Wire - Character Studies

Hi all,

I decided to do a post with all the character study sketches I do of characters from The Wire, and keep updating this one post with future ones I create.
No sense in having tons of posts of one subject.
So at the time of posting there will be two from the last post included (which I've now deleted) plus this mornings one, which is Marlow.
This is mainly just practising Comic Book style sketches and not for any other particular reason, but The Wire has a nice assortment of interesting characters and is a good base of reference to use.

So until the next update, enjoy whatever you're up to!

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1. Bubbles

2. Poot

3. Marlo

4. Bunk

5. Sgt Landsman

6. Pryzbylewski

Sketch for Inking

Second Post of the day!

After posting earlier I decided to do another sketch to use for inking practice and got a little carried away, the pencils ended up being a little tighter than I'd planned!
I thought I'd post it anyway, in the pencils stage, this is Eddie one of the characters in the story I'm working on, or at least an image of what he might look like. I used a photo of my own face as reference so the final character will most likely end up being a little thinner than I am.

Again, I'm off to do some more practising whilst I have some time spare, days off are great fun but never last as long as the ones when at work....

Young Bigby

Happy New Year!

I've been playing about in Manga Studio today, trying to get use to the layout and the feel of it, had this pencil sketch of a young Bigby from Vertigo's Fables lying about so thought I'd put it to some good use.

The final image is digital ink over the original sketch, I liked the way it looked so left the rough pencil underneath to add some texture, after that it's taken into Photoshop to have some greys added too.
I really want a Cintiq of some sort, drawing on a graphics tablet is just to disconnected. I know you do get use to it the more you use one, but being able to draw straight onto the screen would be a wonder! Anyhow, for now practice is needed...

Catch you all soon!

Fun with Photography and Photoshop on a Friday

Happy Punch in the Face for Sport Day!

Just a very quick post, and the title is self explanatory really, I'm off to wake up, read some Hellboy and drink Coffee, there's a days food and drink to be had and I need to be prepared!

Catch you all soon!